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MAHMUD HAMS, AFP/Getty Images04.04.2016

A picture taken from the sea on April 4, 2016, shows the sun rising over Gaza City. Gaza fishermen have begun working further off the coast after Israel relaxed restrictions for the first time in a decade but said that the measure was not nearly enough. Palestinian boats started to fish as far as nine nautical miles off the coast on April 3, the first extension to the zone since 2005.

MAHMUD HAMS
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A Pakistani resident sits on a innertube in a flooded area following heavy rain on the outskirts of Peshawar on April 4, 2016. At least 53 people were killed and 60 injured after heavy rain across northwest Pakistan and areas of Kashmir caused landslides and the roofs of dozens of homes to collapse, officials said.A MAJEED
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A fisherman carries a sailfish on his head to the fish market in Hamarweyne near the port of Mogadishu on April, 4, 2016.MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB
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A skier in the Canadian debut of the Red Bull Slopesoakers competition launches off a jump at Grouse Mountain North Vancouver, April 2 2016. The Red Bull SlopeSoakers competition fuses together two formats, slopestyle and a pond skim.Gerry Kahrmann
/ PNG

Thousands of runners fill the eastbound lanes of the new State Route 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington, Saturday, April 2, 2016, during a 10K run to kick off weekend ceremonies for the grand opening of the span, which connects the cities of Seattle and Bellevue, Wash. The structure will open to vehicular traffic later in the month.Ted S. Warren
/ AP Photo

A boy pose for a photo in a makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Sunday, April 3, 2016. A plan to send back migrants from Greece to Turkey sparked demonstrations by local residents in both countries Saturday, two days before the deal brokered by the European Union is set to be implemented.Darko Vojinovic
/ AP

A teenage boy on a BMX bike jumps at the skate park in Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, April 3, 2016.Mindaugas Kulbis
/ AP

Refugees prepare to sleep at the port in the town of Chios where refugees and migrants who broke out from Vial detention center camp out on April 3, 2016. Under a European Union deal with Turkey, migrants and refugees arriving after March 20 are to be held in centres set up on five Aegean islands, including Chios, and sent back if their asylum applications are not accepted. Returns are supposed to begin on April 4.LOUISA GOULIAMAKI
/ AFP/Getty Images

People fight with pillows during World Pillow Fight Day in front of the City Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark April 2, 2016.NIKOLAI LINARES
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French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, leads a mass for migrants in the Saint-Jean Cathedral, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, April 3, 2016. French investigators have searched Catholic church offices in Lyon amid allegations that a renowned cardinal and others had covered up a priest’s sexual abuse of boy scouts. The office of Cardinal Barbarin said Wednesday that the headquarters of the Lyon diocese were searched as part of a preliminary investigation into the case, and that church officials have handed over documents “to shed light on these painful events.”Laurent Cipriani
/ AP

The Weeknd appears on stage to accept his Juno award for single of the year at the Juno Awards in Calgary, Sunday, April 3, 2016.JEFF MCINTOSH
/ AP

A Bahraini anti-government protester carries a sign opposing Sunday’s Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix, in Daih, Bahrain, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Small protests and tire burnings were reported in parts of the country, but protests against the race were stymied in many opposition areas by police checkpoints and constant patrols of police jeeps and armored vehicles.Hasan Jamali
/ AP

A woman walks next to a tall wire fence at Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sunday, April 3, 2016. More than 3,000 migrants and refugees stay in the camp as the plan to send back migrants from Greece to Turkey is set to be implemented starting Monday.Petros Giannakouris
/ AP

Syrians walk past campaign posters of candidates for the upcoming parliamentary election in Damascus on April 2, 2016. The streets of Damascus are plastered with campaign posters and banners as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime pushes ahead with parliamentary elections despite Syria’s nearly five-year-old civil war. The war is dominating the campaign for the April 13 vote, which will see nearly 12,000 candidates vying for seats in Syria’s 250-seat legislature.JOSEPH EID
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Children stand behind a fence inside the Moria migrant camp transformed in police-run detention facility in Mytilene, on Lesbos island on April 3, 2016. Migrants returns from Greece to Turkey will begin on April 4, 2016 under the terms of an EU deal that has worried aid groups, as Athens struggles to manage the overload of desperate people on its soil. Over 51,000 refugees and migrants seeking to reach northern Europe are stuck in Greece, after Balkan states sealed their borders. Hundreds more continue to land on the Greek islands every day despite the EU deal.ARIS MESSINIS
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Demonstrators protest against a possible tightening of Polands abortion law, already one of the most restrictive in Europe, in Warsaw on April 3, 2016. Rallies in Warsaw and other cities are being held under the slogan No to the Torture of Women and come as the influential Roman Catholic church launches a campaign for a total ban on abortion, something supported by Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.JANEK SKARZYNSKI
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A Sri Lankan candy floss vendor awaits customers by a road side at dusk as light emits from burning garbage from behind an adjacent house, right, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 3, 2016. The Colombo Port is seen silhouetted far behind.Eranga Jayawardena
/ AP

Sudanese supporters arrive for a rally organised during the visit of the Sudanese President in the town of Zalingei, capital of Central Darfur state, on April 3, 2016. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir started a tour of Darfur on April 1, 2016 ahead of a referendum on whether to keep the conflict-torn western area as five states or to create one united region. Bashir -- who is wanted over war crimes allegations in Darfur -- said he is holding the vote under a 2011 agreement between Khartoum and some of the rebel groups that have been battling his forces for more than a decade.ASHRAF SHAZLY
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Switzerland's Anne-Flore Marxer competes in the women's snowboard event at the Bec des Rosses during the Verbier Xtreme Freeride World Tour final on April 2, 2016 above the Swiss Alps resort of Verbier.FABRICE COFFRINI
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Migrants and refugees block the highway near the town of Polykastro to protest for the opening of the Greek-Macedonian border on April 2, 2016 after thousands of them are stranded by the Balkan border blockade. Migrant returns from Greece to Turkey will begin on April 4, 2016 under the terms of an EU deal that has worried aid groups, as Athens struggles to manage the overload of desperate people on its soil. Over 51,000 refugees and migrants seeking to reach northern Europe are stuck in Greece, after Balkan states sealed their borders. Hundreds more continue to land on the Greek islands every day despite the EU deal. \BULENT KILIC
/ AFP/Getty Images

Nice's French goalkeeper Yoan Cardinale jumps during the French L1 football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Nice at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on April 2, 2016.FRANCK FIFE
/ AFP/Getty Images

A man walks past the Canada Post building as sunlight reflects off the windows of an office tower in downtown Vancouver, on Thursday March 31, 2016.Darryl Dyck
/ THE CANADIAN PRESS

Rescue workers look at the mangled remains of a vehicle taken out from underneath a partially collapsed overpass in Kolkata, India,Thursday, March 31, 2016. A long section of a road overpass under construction collapsed Wednesday in a crowded Kolkata neighborhood, with tons of concrete and steel slamming into midday traffic, killing several and injuring many.Bikas Das
/ AP Photo

Barry McKnight is silhouetted by the morning sunlight as he takes advantage of the calm water for a spring slalom ski in Port Moody, Wednesday, March 30, 2016.Jonathan Hayward
/ THE CANADIAN PRESS

Supporters of Bosnia-Herzegovina celebrates after their team scores the second goal during the friendly football match between Switzerland and Bosnia-Herzegovina at Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich on March 29, 2016.FABRICE COFFRINI
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A balloon thrown by a North Korean defector containing a colored liquid bursts on a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally protesting North Korea Wednesday, March 30, 2016, in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea fired a short-range projectile from an area near its eastern coast on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, in what appears to be another weapons test seen as a response to ongoing military drills between Washington and Seoul.Ahn Young-joon
/ AP Photo

In this March 19, 2016 photo, Kay Pike transforms herself using body paint and latex into Superman while live streaming at her home in Calgary. The Canadian artist turns her body into different characters for an Internet audience.Jeff McIntosh
/ The Canadian Press via AP

A wave breaks against a pier in front of a lighthouse in Boulogne-sur-Mer, on March 28, 2016. Tens of thousands of homes were without power in northwestern France early Monday after the region was pounded overnight by winds gusting to hurricane force that also triggered flight cancellations and outages in southern England.PHILIPPE HUGUEN
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South Korean conservative activists launch large balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets at a field near the Demilitarized zone dividing the two Koreas in Paju on March 28, 2016. A group of South Korean activists sent to the North tens of thousands of leaflets criticising the leader Kim Jong-Un via giant balloons at a time of heightened military tension.YONHAP
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A Kosovo Albanian man is reflected in a memorial dedicated people killed during the Kosovo war, during a ceremony marking the 17th anniversary of the massacre in the village of Izbica on March 28, 2016. In 1999 during the Kosovo war 150 civilians were killed by Serbian forces in Izbica. The massacre, one of the bloodiest that occurred in Kosovo crisis, led to massive international pressure on Serbia to stop their ethnically motivated killings of civilian Albanians and to a NATO led air campaign that ousted Serbian security forces from Kosovo.ARMEND NIMANI
/ AFP/Getty Images

Kitesurfers enjoy the high winds off Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, BC., March 27, 2016.Nick Procaylo
/ PNG

Sunshine lights up a daffodil and draws people to the Coal Harbour seawall, Vancouver March 26 2016.Gerry Kahrmann
/ PNG

A woman resident of the Bacongo district in Brazzaville sits on the stairs of the Saint Pierre Claver church on March 26, 2016 for the beginning of the Easter vigil.MARCO LONGARI
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Jockeys compete during the Dubai Kahalya Classic race as part of the Dubai World Cup day horse racing event on March 26, 2016 at the Meydan racecourse in the United Arab Emirate of Dubai. Closing the UAE racing season, the Dubai World Cup day features nine races including the worlds richest horse race, the ten million US dollars Dubai World Cup.MARWAN NAAMANI
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An Afghan car wash worker looks on as he waits for customers as he sits beside Shuhada Lake in Kabul on March 26,2016.WAKIL KOHSAR
/ AFP/Getty Images

Malaysia’s police stand in formation as one of them is fainted due to hot weather on the Police Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, March 25, 2016. Malaysian police have detained 15 more suspected Islamic State members, who police say planned to launch attacks and tried to obtain chemicals to make bombs, National police chief said in a statement Thursday.Vincent Thian
/ AP

Representatives throw papers up in the air at the conclusion of the final day of the Georgia General Assembly at the capitol in Atlanta, Friday, March 25, 2016.Jason Getz
/ AP

A model presents a creation for the Hempel Award, as part of the 24th China International Young Fashion Designers Contest, at China Fashion Week in Beijing, Friday, March 25, 2016.Mark Schiefelbein
/ AP

In less than a week, Abbotsford recording artists Hedley went from touring Canada with two supporting acts and a popular new album to pariahs ensnared in allegations of sexual misconduct. On Monday, accusations that band members Jacob Hoggard, Dave Rosin, Tommy Mac and Jay Benison had engaged in sexual behaviour with teenage girls surfaced on Twitter […]

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